The Club's Results
Head of the Cam, May Term 2006
A timed headrace on the Cam for college and town crews
Sat 29th April
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Miscellaneous women's IVs, S3 IV+
1st of 5 women's coxed fours, 8th of 19 coxed fours overall
Time: 11:18
Time: 11:18
We had a nice row up to Chesterton followed by a lot of sitting around, and a nice row up to the start and then even more sitting around. In total we must have been sitting around for at least an hour.
Eventually we went off, right at the foot of the division chasing a J15 women's quad. Our start was great and we hit our target rating with a nice rhythm very quickly and stormed through the first half of the race. At Ditton we spacked a bit before getting it back together and hauling in the quad, who'd started the reach about 4 lengths ahead. By the P&E we'd almost caught up another quad, this one full of schoolboys rather than schoolgirls, and instead of overtaking we did the nice thing and spacked a bit more to ensure we stayed behind and in their wash. They congratulated us afterwards and said that it'd been the first 'real head-on-head' race they'd ever had. Awwww.
Good racing generally, and surprisingly enjoyable for the first head piece of term.
Eventually we went off, right at the foot of the division chasing a J15 women's quad. Our start was great and we hit our target rating with a nice rhythm very quickly and stormed through the first half of the race. At Ditton we spacked a bit before getting it back together and hauling in the quad, who'd started the reach about 4 lengths ahead. By the P&E we'd almost caught up another quad, this one full of schoolboys rather than schoolgirls, and instead of overtaking we did the nice thing and spacked a bit more to ensure we stayed behind and in their wash. They congratulated us afterwards and said that it'd been the first 'real head-on-head' race they'd ever had. Awwww.
Good racing generally, and surprisingly enjoyable for the first head piece of term.
This was quite fun, and surprisingly good for a scratch crew. Even the sitting around wasn't too bad. A good head piece marred only by a burst of latent incompetence at the end (trying to overtake a quad of small boys).
<h3><a name="selectedresults">Selected Results</a></h3><h4>College men's VIIIs</h4><p><pre><b>Club Category Time Position in Class in Event</b> Caius 1st Mays 8:40 1/81 1/37 1/6 Emmanuel College 1st Mays 8:48 2/81 2/37 2/6 Christ's College 1st Mays 8:49 3/81 3/37 3/6 Jesus College 1st Mays 8:53 4/81 4/37 4/6 Emmanuel College 2nd Mays 8:59 5/81 5/37 1/6 LMBC 1st Mays 9:00 6=/81 7/37 5/6 Fitzwilliam College 2nd Mays 9:10 8/81 8/37 2/6 Trinity Hall 1st Mays 9:23 9/81 9/37 6/6 Darwin College Other Mays 9:30 10=/81 10/37 1/7 Corpus Christi 2nd Mays 9:37 12/81 11/37 3/6 Girton College 2nd Mays 9:38 13=/81 12/37 4/6 Jesus College 2nd Mays 9:38 13=/81 13/37 5/6 CCAT Nov 8 9:41 16/81 15/37 1/7 Christ's College Other Mays 9:47 18=/81 18/37 2/7 Sidney Sussex BC 2nd Mays 9:50 21=/81 19/37 6/6 St Edmunds College Other Mays 9:52 23/81 20/37 3/7 Homerton College Other Mays 10:10 29=/81 23/37 4/7 Jesus College Other Mays 10:13 33=/81 25/37 5/7 Darwin College Other Mays 10:58 48/81 30/37 6/7 Corpus Christi Other Mays 11:14 50=/81 32/37 7/7</pre></p><h4>College women's VIIIs</h4><p><pre><b>Club Category Time Position in Class in Event</b> Jesus College 1st Mays 10:01 25/81 2/20 1/4 Girton College 1st Mays 10:12 31=/81 3/20 2/4 Trinity Hall 1st Mays 10:46 45/81 6/20 3/4 CCAT Nov 8 10:51 46/81 7/20 1/5 Jesus College Other Mays 10:54 47/81 8/20 1/4 Christ's College 1st Mays 11:10 49/81 9/20 4/4 Darwin College Other Mays 11:25 57/81 11/20 2/4 Darwin College Other Mays 12:08 67=/81 14/20 3/4 Trinity Hall Other Mays 12:08 67=/81 15/20 4/4</pre></p><h4>College men's IVs</h4><p><pre><b>Club Category Time Position in Class in Event</b> Christ's College S3 4+ 10:05 28/81 1/14 1/4 St Edmunds College Nov 4+ 11:30 59=/81 9/14 3/5</pre></p><h4>Women's IVs</h4><p><pre><b>Club Category Time Position in Class in Event</b> <b>1st and 3rd S3 4+ 11:18 53=/81 1/1 1/1</b> Cambridge '99 RC Nov 4+ 12:34 74/81 2/2 1/4 St Mary's School Nov 4+ 13:02 77/81 3/3 2/4 Simoco Nov 4+ 13:32 79/81 4/4 3/4 X-Press BC Nov 4+ 13:42 80/81 5/5 4/4</pre></p><div align="right"><font size="-1"><a href="#top">^ top</a></font></div><hr>
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